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Assessment of the Digital Market in Croatia

World Bank Group - 2021

With a view to supporting Croatia's continued efforts to advance its digital transformation, this report contains the findings of a comprehensive study of the digital sector in Croatia. In this study, the digital sector is defined as the internet (fixed and mobile), telephony (fixed and mobile),...

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Maldives Development Update, April 2021 : A Digital Dawn

World Bank Group - 2021

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic brought global tourism and travel to a standstill. Thus, although the health impact of the pandemic has been fairly contained in Maldives, its economic consequences have been devastating. To contain the spread of the virus, the country closed its borders for...

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Reforming and Rebuilding Lebanon's Port Sector Part II : Policies and Solutions for Digitalizing the Port of Beirut

World Bank Group - 2021

The resilience of the Lebanese port sector has proven to be low. The impact of the ongoing economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Port of Beirut (PoB) explosion has traumatized the sector and exposed its weaknesses and inabilities to predict, identify, and respond to external risks....

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Digitization of Agribusiness Payments in Africa : Building a Ramp for Farmers' Financial Inclusion and Participation in a Digital Economy

World Bank Group - 2020

This report aims to present the rationale for digitization of agribusiness payments in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), assess the current status of digitization using demand and supply-side data, and identify key actions that can help accelerate digitization. The report draws on an analysis of...

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Digitization of Agribusiness Payments in Africa : Building a Ramp for Farmers' Financial Inclusion and Participation in a Digital Economy

World Bank Group - 2020

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Lebanon Digital ID Use Cases

World Bank Group - 2024

This report summarizes the findings of a series of World Bank Digital Development missions from November 2022 to July 2023 to Lebanon focused on priority use cases for digital ID and authentication services. It outlines how digital identity, as part of a wider digital transformation program,...

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Digital Identification Mexico

World Bank Group - 2022

Authorities in Mexico are seeking solutions to the complex task of improving efficiency in the financial and government sectors when identifying individuals and legal entities, while balancing other public-policy objectives, such as governance, technological neutrality, safety, privacy, and...

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Digital and Telecom : Myanmar Infrastructure Monitoring

World Bank Group - 2022

Myanmar has experienced a series of total and partial internet shutdowns since the military coup in February 2021. These restrictions have varied in intensity across the country and over time, ranging from the complete shutdown of all wireless broadband services and nightly shutdowns of fixed...

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The Role of Digital in the COVID-19 Social Assistance Response

World Bank Group - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in vast numbers of people in need of social assistance, many of whom were not previously covered by social safety nets. To meet this unprecedented level of need, governments quickly scaled social assistance reaching over 1.7 billion people in low- and middle income...

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Crowdfunding's Potential in the Caribbean : A Preliminary Assessment

World Bank Group - 2017

to engage in innovative financing mechanisms, such as angel investing and crowdfunding. Over the past few years, there … has been experimental use of crowdfunding by existing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups in the Caribbean …. Crowdfunding leverages Internet technology and offers a new path to capital formation that may mitigate some challenges, including …

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